The following are a list of television and film events for Black History Month. Many programs are ongoing and are shown throughout the year. Check your local listings.
Black Entertainment Television:
- Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel
- “One Night Only Marathon”: Reality docu-soap: Six New Orleans high school kids and their drama teacher race to mount the “Dreamgirls” play in the aftermath and the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina
- The MC: This is Why We Do It
- Black & Blue: Legends of the Hip-Hop Cop
- The Art of 16 Bars
- Bastards of the Party. Former Bloods gang member Cle “Bone” Sloan looks at the history of Black gangs in Los Angeles
- When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. Spike Lee’s documentary on Hurricane Katrina
- Ithuteng (Never Stop Learning)
- A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day
- Digging for the Truth—Ramses: Visions of Greatness
- Egyptian Warfare
PBS:
- Independent Lens—Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
- Sisters of Selma: Bearing Witness for Change
- The Story of Oscar Brown, Jr.
PBS Encore Presentations:
- Deford Bailey: A Legend Lost
- African American Lives
- America Beyond the Color Line with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- American Experience “Eyes on the Prize”
- Fannie Lou Hamer: Courage And Faith
- Point of View “Chisholm ‘72—Unbought & Unbossed”
- Slavery and the Making of America
